It’s like Discord if less people used it and there was still no e2ee and the signup page was broken and it was still centralized

my threat model doesn’t include carrier location tracking.

The Qwen models that you can run with llama.cpp (Jan’s main backend) are quite brilliant for their size

windows genuinely infuriates me, not only for the typical reasons like Microsoft bloat and adware. I hate how it handles a lot of systems, and much prefer the organization and relative modularity of Linux. development and software management is also a pain on windows, and it’s difficult to sandbox apps.

I use backblaze, $6/TB/mo. i set it up with restic backups to get my storage usage so low, that I’ve used it for 4 months and haven’t paid yet.